title: Impact of a community-based breast cancer screening program on Hopi women.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine changes in breast cancer knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors following implementation of a tribal run CDC Breast and Cervical Cancer Program (BCCP), we report 2006 survey results from Hopi women and contrast findings with 1993 survey data and BCCP reports.
  
  
  METHODS
  Community meetings, focus groups, and researchers jointly developed a culturally appropriate survey instrument. Hopi women randomly selected from Tribal enrollment lists were interviewed in-person by Hopi interviewers; 250 women ≥ age 18 participated (87% response) between June and December, 2006.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among women 40+, 77.5% reported ever having had a mammogram and 68.9% reported having done so within the past 2years, an increase from 45.2% and 46% self-reported in 1993. Compared to 1993, more women in 2006 (88.1% vs. 59%) believed that a mammogram can detect cancer and more than 90% now believe that early detection of cancer can save lives. Women reported a preference (60%) for receiving health care at the Hopi BCCP. Survey results were validated using programmatic data which estimated 76.6% of Hopi women had received mammography screening.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Implementation of a tribal run BCCP has resulted in a substantial increase in mammography screening on the Hopi reservation.
authors.affiliation: Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, 1215 N. Martin, Room A 242, Tucson, AZ 85750, USA. srbrown@u.arizona.edu
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nuno
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Joshweseoma
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Begay
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Goodluck
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Harris
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001130:Arizona; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology; D019058:Community Networks; D055088:Early Detection of Cancer; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008875:Middle Aged